Tue.Mar 19, 2024

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AI-driven CX in tech: Navigating industry challenges & opportunities

Callminer

2024 marks a significant year for the tech industry, as it navigates through economic turbulence. This blog top looks at trends shaping CX in tech and the role of AI in harnessing these opportunities.

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Role of Chief Customer Officer: Ensuring that Customer-Centricity is at the Heart of Business

Customer Think

The role of CCO has historically been viewed as a bridge between the customer and the business, primarily focusing on customer service and corporate feedback. However, the digital revolution and subsequent acceleration of consumer expectations have expanded the CCO’s role to include not just customer service but also experience (CX), loyalty, and long-term engagement strategies.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Balancing Policy with Personalized Experiences

Experience Investigators

Struggling to balance strict company policies with the need for out-of-the-ordinary customer experiences? Fear not! As your guide, Jeannie Walters lays out the roadmap for customer experience leaders to find that sweet spot. In this episode, we tackle a quandary presented by a CX leader looking for ways to empower her team to navigate the tricky terrain where unique customer needs clash with the rulebook.

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Best Practices for Showing Quick Wins

Customer Think

One of the biggest asks that CX leaders (still) have to deal with to get executive commitment and engagement – and for the rest of the organization to feel that there’s meaningful impact as a result of changes being proposed/made – is showing ROI.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Salesforce Surveys: A Comprehensive Guide to Unlock Customer Insights

Zonka Feedback

In today's customer-centric business world, understanding your audience is crucial. However, traditional feedback methods can be time-consuming and disconnected from your existing workflows. Enter Salesforce surveys: a powerful solution that lets you gather valuable customer insights directly within your CRM platform.

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How To Increase Customer Service Agent Confidence with AI Simulation

Customer Think

Meeting the Demands of Superior Customer Service in the Modern Era (Previously posted at DoingCXRight.com/blog) Imagine you’re the manager of a busy customer service call center. The pressure is constant, with customer inquiries and complaints flowing relentlessly. Amid this chaos, one of your agents, Alex, approaches you with a look of trepidation.

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Driving Excellent CX: The Inside-Out Approach

Customer Think

Top marketers understand the power of exceptional customer experience (CX). Progressive organizations prioritize a systematic approach, investing in core CX competencies that deliver sustainable value for all stakeholders – customers, the business, and employees. Companies that embrace a customer-centric approach start by deeply understanding customer needs and perceptions.

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Good Survey Questions: 30 Effective Questions to Ask

SurveySensum

Did you know that asking the right questions can make all the difference in gathering meaningful feedback? Picture this : You receive a CSAT survey after your recent purchase at a clothing brand. The survey had only 5 questions but all of them were open-ended questions, I mean who has the time for that? So, naturally, you give one-word answers just to get it over with.

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From popularity to profit: Managing viral product demand with order management software

Customer Think

In today’s online retail landscape, success can sometimes arrive like a lightning bolt, catching even the most seemingly prepared off guard. Picture this: a small apparel retailer suddenly finds itself thrust into the spotlight overnight. How? A single TikTok video featuring one of its products goes viral, catapulting sales to an unprecedented 1000% surge.

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A New Paradigm: Rethinking 'The Customer Is Always Right'

Help Scout

It’s time to shift the customer service paradigm again, from “The customer is always right” to “The customer always deserves to be helped.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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The worrying state of the European contact center space

Customer Think

Every now and again, I come across a piece of research that makes me want to pull my hair out. One such piece of research was the recently released State of Contact Centres 2024: Part 1 – Trends report from Puzzel, a leading European CCaaS player, which surveyed 750 contact centre leaders from various organizations across Europe.

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Thrust Forward Into An Intelligent Enterprise To Deliver Real Business Value

Customer Think

Lead to cash Source to pay Customer service request management requiring a truck roll Asset warranty and subscription management What do all the above processes have in common?

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Tech Workers Affected By Layoffs Find Innovative Ways Back Into the Industry

Customer Think

Pundits have compared the current wave of tech industry layoffs to the dot com bust of the early 2000s, but the fact of the matter is that far more people have been impacted by them than nearly any other downturn. The sheer size of the tech industry in today’s world is staggering.

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Revenue leaders, are you sitting on a data goldmine?

Customer Think

Data is like oxygen for go-to-market teams. It’s a vital necessity for attracting, nurturing, and converting leads into customers, and not having it can cost your business big time. Research estimates a total of $142B in revenue was lost last year due to marketers inadvertently optimizing campaigns for fake audiences, stemming from poor data.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Yext Launches New Customer Success Program

Customer Think

Yext expands service and support portfolio to accelerate customer results

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Visible and invisible tech stacks, and the upsides and downsides of “shadow IT” in martech and beyond

Customer Think

Tech stacks are large. The empirical stack data we recently shared from Zylo, a leading SaaS management platform, showed that even after a year of belt-tightening, the average SMB (500 employees or less) still has 162 SaaS apps. Mid-market companies (500 to 2,500 employees) have 245. And large enterprises have 650.

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(4:41 Video) “Collaboration in Sales: The Key to Success”

Customer Think

In this 4:41 video, Ryan Thomas discusses the importance of teamwork and collaboration in driving business success. He highlights the significance of being a partner rather than just a customer vendor. He emphasizes the need for leaders to embrace the power of teamwork to provide the best solutions for customers.

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